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Welcome to our Team Blog! Marie Antoinette & Edie Marie have joined together to create a fun place to share our ideas and lives with all of you. We know that our teaming up has been confusing for some of you and we apologize. We will refer to ourselves as Marie Antoinette (the Doll Creator & maker of fabulous items) who lives in Peacock Paradise and Edie Marie (the creator of the posts and story telling on this blog & amateur crafter of many things in my "attic") who lives on Golden Pond. What great fun we have combining our forces!!

Thank you for stopping by to see what's happening in our studios in Peacock Paradise and on Golden Pond!

Monday, July 28, 2014

MARIE'S PROJECTS AT PEACOCK PARADISE! !

NEWS FROM

PEACOCK PARADISE...

*** BABIES, BABIES & MORE BABIES! ***

Look at all of them... ELEVEN! Four of these

wee ones were adopted by this mama

when their own mama abandoned them.

Their adopted mama has blended them

right into one happy family.

There's a white baby in front that Marie is in love with along with a white one with specks of bright blue on his head, very unusual. They grow up fast but that gorgeous display of feathers takes three years to become the spectacular show we associate with peacocks.

*** TOTAL SWEETNESS ***THE "ALEXIA" DOLL

Here's Marie's daughter, Alexia, coming home from the hospital 41 years ago!

Look at the adorable outfit Marie

dressed her in for her first trip.

Alex is so beautiful!!

Marie has saved that sweet outfit & blanket, as

many of us have done, for the sake of sentimentality. She was looking for the perfect size doll to display Alex's clothing on and be able to enjoy looking at them again.

Finally the right doll came along that was the perfect size. She is a 2000 Heritage Mint Doll.She's just too cute isn't she? The dress was purchased by Marie's Mama and as you can see her favorite color was orange.

Look at the adorable little baby shoes she has on! They're pale yellow to compliment the orange dress. (The hat is from another baby outfit that Alex wore. Marie still has that sweet outfit also and she'll show us in a future post.) The blanket is the one Alex came home in.I love the colored stripes! The pacifier was Alex's very first and the pink rattle was her first toy. The little giraffe was among her first toys also. I told you this was sweet!!

*** A BROKEN UNICORN ***

A friend of Marie's gave her a beautiful Fairy

Doll and the White Unicorn. The unicorn was in

a crippled state having a badly broken hind leg.

Not an issue for Marie. The repair was easy

for her. But then she added something that

took my breath away, a LACE saddle!

It gives the illusion of an intricate

saddle fit for a Fairy!

Very creative Marie! What a great result from "thinking outside the box"!

*** "LOIS", A 1970S WALKING DOLL ***(IN NEED OF LOTS OF LOVE!)

Marie was going on a group venture with her Busy Bee group a while back and noticed that everyone was stepping on and over a doll that was laying on the vehicle's floor. One of the ladies said the doll was for Marie to see if she could do anything to "save" the doll. One of the other ladies said " It looks like it should go in the garbage!"

Marie thought "Oh my...the poor doll", and graciously took the sad looking mess. She had NO eyelashes, mildew in her eyes, layers of dirt and scum all over her...

and NO hair! You could say Marie had her workcut out for her! The doll, "Lois", started with a major scrub down. We're not talking a bath, we're talking heavy duty scrub brushand good old fashioned elbow grease. Then she had to take a trip to the doll hospital to have an eyelash transplant!

It's a delicate procedure...

thank goodness it was a success! Marie found new hair for her on Ebay and gave her a gorgeous hairdo.

You'd never guess she was the same doll would you? The floral crown came from the Dollar Tree along with the fluffy white bunny.

Lois' clothes came from Fred's Store for about $6 and her shoes were $3.

The transformation is amazing!

Absolutely Amazing! Nice makeover Marie!!

*** HARRIET HUBBARD AYERS DOLL RESCUE ***

(Are you detecting a pattern here?)

This doll was made in 1950.Marie has named her Priscilla. The doll was in the back of a closet at the house of Marie's mother-in-law.It was incredibly sticky and almost felt like it was "melting". (No before photo, our apologies!) This was another job for the scrub down! Priscilla's hair was even sticky and a lot of her once lovely ringlets had to be cut off!Marie gave her a new hairdo with what was left of her hair and I think it looks great.

Her original dress was still in decent shape so Marie laundered it and made it look fabulous. The little doll in her hand is a small Dorothy doll that was given as a toy at McDonalds years ago! Marie thought that Priscilla's dress looked a bit like Dorothy's dress style so she put them together to make a darling doll duo!

*** SEYMOUR MANN DOLL ***

Another rescue? Yep!

These two dolls were filthy! Marie had to... you guessed it, scrub them and scrub their clothing! (You can see the "before" of the Dorothy doll.)

The difference is amazing!

Once again Marie has totally saved

a doll without a home.

*** BYE-LO BABY DOLL ***

Bye-Lo Baby Dolls were one of the first

truly realistic baby dolls sculpted.

Grace Storey Putnam,

a sculpter from 1877- 1947, created

this revolutionary doll in the early 1920s!

No doll looked this real up to this point.

How did she do this?

She studied a real 3 day old baby to come up

with her design.

Why tell you about the Bye-Lo baby? It actually starts with an antique crocheted baby's gown and hat. It was made by

the mother of a friend of Marie.

Marie's friend was looking for a home for

this baby set, made in 1890. It was stained

and no one in the family wanted it. So Marie became the new owner! She was

in search of a baby doll that would do

this little outfit justice. Bye-Lo Baby was

the perfect size! Marie got permission

from her friend to tea dye the antique

crocheted baby outfit which camouflaged

the old stains.

Here's the result...

the perfect pairing!

So beautiful Marie!!

*** REVIVING THE PRAYER CHRISTMAS TREE DOLL***

Oh dear... this is a doll Marie madea while back for a friend of hers and is now in need of a good cleaning!

This is a fabulous doll and Marie wanted to bring it back to it's original beauty for the owner.

18 comments:

Dear Marie, what a fabulous post. To begin the baby peacocks are darling. I know you picked a favorite in the white. They are just gorgeous. What a special day you brought sweet Alex home. Love this pic and the outfit you brought her home in is darling. You look so sweet holding your little bundle of joy. What a blessing.

Love each and every doll you brought back to their original and so beautiful. I actually had the first doll. It was a Patty Playpal and had a short red hair style and was so pretty. Love what you did to the hair bringing her back to her original with the eyelashes too. What a beautiful collection of treasures in your dolls and the theater doll is amazingly so pretty again as you restored it back to it's original white beauty.Always an amazing job you do with your wonderful talents. Your shop is filled with such beauty and I know first hand how wonderful your work is.Thank you for sharing these pics and doll rescue stories. Amazing transformations.

Hi Edie and thank you for bring the stories to us with Maries pics. I always enjoy you two and the team work you do making each post very special.Edie you share it perfectly, like Marie is telling the story.

Have a blessed week my friends and wonderful last week of July.Blessings always.Love you both. XOXO

Hi Ladies,So nice to hear from you. How cute are those baby peacocks! I love white ones too! :)That is so cute to have a doll wearing your daughter's newborn clothing. Great idea!What a difference hair can make huh, I can't believe how gorgeous she looks and that Christmas tree doll is amazing, love it!!Have a great week,Gina

Hello there ladies,The doll, Louis, is so precious. She looks great after cleaning her and giving her some eye lashes and brown curly hair! What a transformation. The baby doll is sweet too, and I love the tea dyed crocheted dress and hat she is wearing. She looks like a beautiful vintage doll. The lace saddle on the unicorn is so pretty, and you know how much I love fairies!

Thank you for sharing all these treasures. I think it just takes someone like yourself to give these dolls a new look and to care for them the way that you do.

Lovely to see a post from you and all the wonderful things you have shared. From the sweet baby peacocks to sweet baby Alex. Louis is amazing and such a wonderful job you did in transforming her to a beautiful dolly. The unicorn with the lace saddle is magical.Hope you are both enjoying the summer dayshugsCarolyn

These dolls are breathtaking - and so is the lace saddle! And the peacock babies - awwww. so much sweetness in one post! Thank you also for your lovely visit chez moi - i wish you the most lovely rest of the week!

Hey there girlfriends!!! We are in awe Marie....what wonderful work you do! I reminded me (I forgot...lol!) of the doll (I think she's 3 or 4') that is under my bed...in a plastic box. When the kiddos were younger I was at an estate sale and bought her. I took her to the doll dr and had her cleaned and hair put on her. I put my daughter's 1st Christmas dress on her (so sweet....reminded me of you getting a doll for your daughter's dress marie!) ANYWAY....the kids loved playing with her....but one day there was a crack down the side of her face....hmmmmm.....that sounds like more than an overnighter at the hospital lol!! Never did get the story...maybe I should bring it up at supper tomorrow.....they might fess up now :) Hope you girls have a wonderful weekend....and YES we MUST get together...let us know when you are heading up for a visit!!

Wow, I thought I never what I wanted to say, but the more I saw, the more speechless I became!!!! Amazingly beautiful transformations, real labors of love, but such dramatic results. Love them all!Hugs,Patti

Edie Marie and Sweet Marie Antoinette, the creativity flows in rivers of JOY chez vous! From those darling adopted chicks to the transformation of the poupées, I can almost feel a heartbeat from this baby dolls. Isn't it a splendid thing to create in the image of the creator? I think that if I could not make something (whether it's a blog post, a poem, a piece of whimsical art), I'd literally go mad.

KEEP HAPPY - CREATE!

And thank you dearest Edie Marie, my first "blog friend" for coming to visit. Let us DANCE!

Marie, I came here to ask you a pea chick question and lo and behold, peachicks everywhere! I have peachicks about 3 months old. How do I tell the males from the females? I am going to adopt them out, but haven't a clue on how to sex them. Any help?

I really enjoyed seeing these amazing transformations. Marie is a doll whisperer! What delights. The one found on the floor of a vehicle actually made me gasp. Nope! I'd never have believed that that was the same doll.

Hello Sweet Friends, Loved visiting this post again and all the amazing photos and creations along with those first days with darling Alex.Thank you for stopping by while I was on vacation. I am trying to catch up now that I am back and it may take the whole week. LOLHope you are both well and enjoying the last of summer. Can you believe it?? Summer flew by and now we are looking forward to the cooler days of fall and one of my favorite times of the year.Have a great week and sending love and hugs your way.xo

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About Us

Hi I'm Marie Antoinette!
I was born in New Orleans,and now live about 5o miles north in Picayune,Miss in Peacock Paradise. I love watching TV and have a wide range of hobbies.I also make clothes for little girls.They go all over the world.I use to bartend and loved doing that,met all kinds of people.That was kool. New Orleans, Picayune Mississippi, gardening, koi, dollmaking, crafting, vintage style, Victorian, sewing, etc. ******
Hi I'm "Edie Marie"! You probably know me from Edie Marie's Attic.
I'm Marie's friend and "adopted" sister. I had the privilege of meeting Marie several years ago and we were kindred spirits from the start. I live in Ohio on Golden Pond and am enjoying crafting, creating, scrapbooking, sewing and traveling when I can. Together Marie and I have so much fun so we decided to team up and blog together for a while. Thanks for stopping to visit us!!

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